The purpose of isolating when one has COVID is to prevent further spread of the infection and keep other community members safe. fperrywilson explains why the 5-day isolation period fails to do this. MedTwitter
, your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I'm Dr F. Perry Wilson of the Yale School of Medicine.
We got some hard numbers this week to show just how good an arbitrary-seeming 5-day isolation period is, thanks towhich gives us a low-end estimate for the proportion of people who remain positive on antigen tests, which is to sayThis study estimates the low end of post-isolation infectivity because of the study population: student athletes at an NCAA Division I school, which may or may not be Stanford.
So, right there we have confirmation that 5 days of isolation without a negative test means you're releasing a decent percentage of infectious individuals back into the population.Symptomatic athletes were much more likely to test positive than asymptomatic athletes.
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